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Baroness Stowell: I’m a saver, Mum made sure of that

The backbench peer says handling finances was as important in her home as learning to read and write

Anna Mikhailova

December 31 2017, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Lady in red: Tina Stowell loves clothes and likes to go out, but always makes sure she is living within her meansANDREW PARSONS

Baroness (Tina) Stowell may be used to the pomp and ceremony of the House of Lords, but she stills follows her own family traditions and pays into her mother’s Christmas savings club every week. Born and raised in Beeston, outside Nottingham, Stowell left school at 16 and enrolled in a secretarial course at a further education college, where she also gained two A-levels. Two years later, she packed her bags for London and joined the civil service as a secretary for the Ministry of Defence. She went on to work for the British embassy in Washington and the No 10 press office between 1991 to 1996.

Aged just 28, Stowell was appointed an MBE in the 1996 Queen’s birthday honours list for services to the…

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